ABSTRACT
The career and writings of John Ramsay McCulloch are of interest from two main standpoints. Firstly, he was probably the first professional economist in the sense of one who lived by means of his learning on the subject. In this respect his activities as a journalist, teacher, and author are of particular interest, and they are examined in detail for the first time, in Chapters III–V. As a professional economist McCulloch had an acknowledged place in public life, and his political and social relationships with his contemporaries (and his work as a civil servant) are examined in Chapter VI.
